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<p>For publishing Open Data, the CC-licenses have become quite popular, because they allow an easy-to-use modular selection of rights and obligations (BY, SA, NC, ND). However, there are also database licenses that cover the same rights and obligations as the CC-licenses:</p><ul><li>Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) ==&gt; corresponds to CC0</li><li>Attribution License (ODC-By) ==&gt; corresponds to CC-BY</li><li>Open Database License (ODC-ODbL) ==&gt; corresponds to CC-BY-SA</li></ul><p>Do these have advantages (or disadvantages) over the CC-licenses?</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1387/cc-vs-database-licensesThu, 18 Apr 2019 14:10:51 +0000Any examples of openly licensed LaTeX templates for conference posters?https://ask-open-science.org/1350/examples-openly-licensed-latex-templates-conference-posters
What I really do not like about posters is that they are rarely reuse-friendly, e.g. because they were created using non-open software and finally shared only on paper or as a PDF or in non-open formats or under non-open licenses.<br />
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Even for LaTeX templates, non-open licenses (usually with an -NC clause) seem to be prevailing. So I'd like to use this thread to create a list of openly licensed and easily forkable posters.Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1350/examples-openly-licensed-latex-templates-conference-postersFri, 02 Nov 2018 03:30:10 +0000Which sources provide public-domain maps from around the globe that are reasonably detailed and up to date?https://ask-open-science.org/1152/sources-provide-public-domain-around-reasonably-detailed
<p>Maps are useful in many contexts, and lots of services provide them in various ways.</p><p>While I regularly see things like Google Maps published in articles that are supposedly under open licenses, I have not yet seen a service that provides maps that are</p><ul><li>public domain/CC0</li><li>covering the entire globe</li><li>reasonably detailed (say, no more than 100m per pixel in highest resolution)</li><li>reasonably up to date (say, not older than a year)</li></ul><div>I am aware of services that are fulfilling some of the criteria, and some of them are listed in responses to a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ask-open-science.org/16/resources-to-create-cc0-cc-by-cartography">similar question</a> I had posted earlier, but none that fulfill them all, so I would appreciate pointers.</div>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1152/sources-provide-public-domain-around-reasonably-detailedTue, 15 May 2018 00:34:17 +0000How do people manage and share contacts with a group? Salesforce?https://ask-open-science.org/1149/how-people-manage-and-share-contacts-with-group-salesforce
<p>Lots of research teams, offices, and departments are groups of 10-50 people all of whom try to collaborate with each other. Everyone has their own email threads, contact lists, and institutional relationships. Too often multiple team members work with the same institutions and are unaware of it, and over periods of years old relationships which fade and get forgotten could be revived if only people starting new relationships with the same institution could remember them.</p><p>The commercial product Salesforce seems to be the world's most popular service for assisting any number of people in teams to track all their relationships. Salesforce will aggregate a group of people's contacts and&nbsp;read and analyze all their emails. Salesforce requests all possible data for its ingestion&nbsp;and for organizations which provide all the data and pay Salesforce they seem to get analysis and insight which they like in return. Salesforce collects huge sums of money a year and seems likely to improve their products with high and stable investment&nbsp;of money over time.</p><p>What open alternatives are there? How can academic teams report and share their institutional collaborations, contacts, and relationships with each other?</p><p>Desired solution:</p><ul><li>saves everyone time as compared to informal sharing and documentation</li><li>free and open software (money not the barrier&nbsp;- just want to contribute a system with good values)</li><li>precedent of use in academia / research small teams</li><li>comparable to Salesforce for small teams</li><li>can be used to identify research team relationships through query of reported data</li><li>track and categorize perhaps 2-5000 relationships and events per year for ~20 researchers and ~100 students</li></ul><div>Apparent options:</div><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Customer_relationship_management_software" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Customer_relationship_management_software</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce.com" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce.com</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiviCRM" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiviCRM</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Dynamics_CRM" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Dynamics_CRM</a></li></ul><p>What does anyone here use?</p><p></p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1149/how-people-manage-and-share-contacts-with-group-salesforceWed, 09 May 2018 19:51:27 +0000How can the tags or categories be linked with the corresponding Wikidata entries?https://ask-open-science.org/1147/tags-categories-linked-with-corresponding-wikidata-entries
<p>I asked this <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.question2answer.org/qa/63835/tags-categories-linked-with-corresponding-wikidata-entries?show=63835#q63835">over at the Question2Answer Q&amp;A</a>. Let's see what comes out of that, or how we can help out there rather than doing it on our own.</p>Metahttps://ask-open-science.org/1147/tags-categories-linked-with-corresponding-wikidata-entriesMon, 07 May 2018 13:58:21 +0000How can this site help spread information about jobs, events, projects, policies or other things closely related to open science?https://ask-open-science.org/1145/information-projects-policies-things-closely-related-science
Given that information about jobs, events, projects, policies or other things closely related to open science would be welcome here, should we go one step further and formalize their handling, e.g. through dedicated tags?Metahttps://ask-open-science.org/1145/information-projects-policies-things-closely-related-scienceSun, 06 May 2018 23:42:59 +0000How does open science relate to open research?https://ask-open-science.org/1143/how-does-open-science-relate-to-open-research
<p>This piggybacks a bit on the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://ask-open-science.org/1142/how-is-open-science-defined">question of how open science is defined</a>. While we could of course ask separately for a definition of open research, I think it is useful to look at both terms together and clarify their relationship.</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1143/how-does-open-science-relate-to-open-researchSun, 06 May 2018 23:14:36 +0000Which electronic lab notebooks support Open Science?https://ask-open-science.org/1133/which-electronic-lab-notebooks-support-open-science
Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1133/which-electronic-lab-notebooks-support-open-scienceFri, 04 May 2018 10:27:51 +0000Which role do 'liquid publications' play in the Open Science discussion?https://ask-open-science.org/1130/which-role-liquid-publications-play-open-science-discussion
Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1130/which-role-liquid-publications-play-open-science-discussionFri, 04 May 2018 10:25:01 +0000What kinds of persistent identifiers for people are there?https://ask-open-science.org/1129/what-kinds-of-persistent-identifiers-for-people-are-there
Apart ORCID, what kinds of persistent identifiers for people (authors, creators, etc.) are in use?Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1129/what-kinds-of-persistent-identifiers-for-people-are-thereFri, 04 May 2018 10:18:33 +0000Are there any openly licensed copyright transfer agreement forms?https://ask-open-science.org/1128/there-openly-licensed-copyright-transfer-agreement-forms
<p>Multiple Wikipedias currently have an <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2000001#sitelinks-wikipedia">article on copyright transfer agreement</a>, but none of them have an image or other representation of an actual form, since we could not find an openly licensed one. If anyone knows of suitable examples, please <a rel="nofollow" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard">upload them to Wikimedia Commons</a> and embed them in the Wikipedia articles. If that sounds too complicated, just leave an answer here, and I'll be happy to help get this into the wikis.</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1128/there-openly-licensed-copyright-transfer-agreement-formsFri, 04 May 2018 10:18:19 +0000What open science initiatives besides the Polymath project are known in the area of mathematics?https://ask-open-science.org/1126/science-initiatives-besides-polymath-project-mathematics
<p>What other initiative are known for open science in mathematics besides the famous&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project">Polymath Project?</a></p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1126/science-initiatives-besides-polymath-project-mathematicsFri, 04 May 2018 10:18:04 +0000Which research fields keep public lists of open questions?https://ask-open-science.org/1113/which-research-fields-keep-public-lists-of-open-questions
<p>For instance, in maths, there are the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems">Millennium Prize Problems</a>, and quantum physics has the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://oqp.iqoqi.univie.ac.at/">Open Quantum Problems</a>. Which other fields are doing something similar, and how can we coordinate across fields?</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1113/which-research-fields-keep-public-lists-of-open-questionsMon, 30 Apr 2018 16:03:08 +0000Do publishers allow green OA to supplementary material?https://ask-open-science.org/1104/do-publishers-allow-green-oa-to-supplementary-material
<p>Most journals allow authors to publish a copy of their own publications on their personal or institutional website ("green Open Access"). <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo">Sherpa Romeo</a> summarizes this as "author <strong>can</strong> archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)"</p><p>Does his also cover supplementary material, i.e. research data that has been submitted by the author(s) to the publisher and that is available on the publisher's website, but only after paying for access to the paper.</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1104/do-publishers-allow-green-oa-to-supplementary-materialFri, 27 Apr 2018 13:39:37 +0000Open Peer Review at conferenceshttps://ask-open-science.org/1099/open-peer-review-at-conferences
I am looking for advice/feedback on testing an open peer review method for conference submissions. Has anyone tried this and have any advice to share? Or has anyone got any 'what not to do' advice?<br />
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Many thanksOpen Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1099/open-peer-review-at-conferencesMon, 26 Mar 2018 11:01:59 +0000What is success with and through Open Science?https://ask-open-science.org/1079/what-is-success-with-and-through-open-science
<p>We are collecting components of success with and through Open Science. Please add yours!</p><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">What are components of &nbsp;success?</span></p><ul><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">replicability</span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">reputation</span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">speed </span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">answers to big societal challenges</span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">collaboration / participation and diversity of contributors / inclusiveness</span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">reuse</span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">societal impact</span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">transparency</span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">spark discussion about science / legitimation of knowledge / evidence practices</span></p></li><li><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:arial; font-size:11pt">inspire others to do open science</span></p></li></ul>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1079/what-is-success-with-and-through-open-scienceSat, 17 Feb 2018 11:50:44 +0000What can consortia do to encourage Open Science?https://ask-open-science.org/1051/what-can-consortia-do-to-encourage-open-science
Consortia bring together researchers from different institutions to work on specific issues for a defined period of time under a somewhat unified legal framework. What can they do to move Open Science forward?Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1051/what-can-consortia-do-to-encourage-open-scienceFri, 07 Jul 2017 11:32:30 +0000How can you move a lab towards #openscience when you are not the Principal investigator?https://ask-open-science.org/1042/move-towards-%23openscience-when-not-principal-investigator
<p>The question comes straight from <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/tweetotaler/status/860271398282870786">this tweet</a>:</p><blockquote><p>How can you move lab towards <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/openscience?src=hash"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">#</span><strong>openscience</strong></a> when not the PI? <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/emckiernan13"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">@</span><strong>emckiernan13</strong></a> has some great advice on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PLOScast?src=hash"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">#</span><strong>PLOScast</strong></a> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://t.co/3zSNCuQhk6">http://blogs.plos.org/plospodcasts/2017/05/03/why-open-research-an-interview-featuring-erin-mckiernan/&nbsp;…</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ecrchat?src=hash"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">#</span><strong>ecrchat</strong></a></p></blockquote><p>It is similar to&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="https://openscience.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/899/what-can-research-teams-do-to-encourage-open-science">What can research teams do to encourage open science?</a> but provides a different perspective, so I guess it's useful to have it as a separate question.</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1042/move-towards-%23openscience-when-not-principal-investigatorFri, 05 May 2017 17:43:54 +0000Does preprint sharing increase overall citation frequency of papers?https://ask-open-science.org/1029/preprint-sharing-increase-overall-citation-frequency-papers
<p>There is quite substantial literature on the Open Access citation advantage. However but that focuses exclusively on sharing journal articles. I wonder if there is any additional effect by sharing early versions of papers, e.g. as preprint or working paper. Of course you would need to look at citations to the various versions (preprint plus regular journal article) and add them up. Do you have any leads on evidence or research into this?</p><p>I do know there is evidence for the High Energy Physics Field (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0906/0906.5418.pdf">https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0906/0906.5418.pdf</a>), but wonder if there is evidence from&nbsp;other fields as well.</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1029/preprint-sharing-increase-overall-citation-frequency-papersFri, 14 Apr 2017 13:51:49 +0000How to make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025?https://ask-open-science.org/1025/how-to-make-open-science-hardware-ubiquitous-by-2025
<p>Quoting from <a href="https://twitter.com/GOSHCommunity/status/845326718869000192" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/GOSHCommunity/status/845326718869000192</a> :</p><blockquote><p>2.5 days into <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOSH2017?src=hash"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">#</span><strong>GOSH2017</strong></a> we're sitting down to plan how to make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025. It takes a whole community!</p></blockquote><p>#GOSH2017 is the Gathering for Open Science Hardware currently taking place in Santiago, Chile.</p><p>Website: <a href="http://openhardware.science/" rel="nofollow">http://openhardware.science/</a></p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/1025/how-to-make-open-science-hardware-ubiquitous-by-2025Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:38:00 +0000Programming tutorials that teach by way of examples from open-source code used in production?https://ask-open-science.org/917/programming-tutorials-teach-examples-source-code-production
<p><em>(Reposting <a rel="nofollow" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37297984/python-tutorials-that-teach-by-way-of-examples-from-open-source-code-used-in-pro">from StackOverflow</a>, where I got bashed for it)</em></p><p>I'm learning Python and am thus diving into tutorials on a regular basis. I appreciate that there is a variety of ways in presenting the materials, and that there's often something to learn in a tutorial even if I've mastered the "same" topic in another one.</p><p>What I am missing, though, is a tutorial that makes systematic use of code that is (or was) used in production by open-source projects, ideally with some commentary as to whether that is/ was a good choice in that particular context, and perhaps with challenges (and hints) on how to do it better, or pointers to patches that have been submitted to that effect.</p><p>In my view, such an approach to tutorials could raise the motivation in learners to engage with the code examples and structures in the tutorials. It would also increase the chances that learners (and probably teachers as well) would look at that production code and perhaps eventually come up with suggestions to improve it.</p><p>Are there any such tutorials out there? My main interest right now is Python, but I'd probably give a shot at such a tutorial for a different language as well.</p><p>While I am drafting this question, I am getting suggestions to related questions like <a rel="nofollow" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190612/where-can-i-find-real-world-examples-of-applications-written-in-python#190883">this one</a>, but none of them seems to deal with the idea of systematically using open-source production code for teaching the language in question.</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/917/programming-tutorials-teach-examples-source-code-productionWed, 18 May 2016 11:26:55 +0000Openness pledge in relation to grant review?https://ask-open-science.org/835/openness-pledge-in-relation-to-grant-review
<p>There have been multiple initiatives around pledges not to review publications destined for paywalls or failing in some other measures of openness, but I am not aware of any initiative or pledge targeted at openness in grant review - pointers much appreciated.</p><p>What I have in mind here is basically to adapt <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.researchwithoutwalls.org/451">my open-access pledge</a> to include grant review, and I see two major ways of doing this:</p><ol><li>reviewing only grant proposals that are public (or perhaps will be made so within some short time frame)</li><li>reviewing only if I can publish my review (perhaps with some short delay/ embargo)</li></ol><p>Option 1 would focus on openness on the part of proposal authors, while exposing funders to this increased openness, whereas option 2 would focus on making the funder's workflows more open, while exposing proposal authors to the idea of such openness.</p><p>I am currently inclined more towards option 2 and am inviting your suggestions on how best to phrase this out, or how to deal with the issue more generally.</p><p>In order to make the resulting pledge text maximally shareable, I'm planning to put it under <a rel="nofollow" href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>, so please be prepared to do the same for your contributions to it.</p>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/835/openness-pledge-in-relation-to-grant-reviewSun, 06 Dec 2015 02:32:28 +0000What are the current practices of granting authorships/deciding authorship order and how can it be improved?https://ask-open-science.org/807/practices-granting-authorships-deciding-authorship-improved
Recently, Titus Brown blogged a thought-provoking piece about current authorship practices in (life) sciences:<br />
<a href="http://ivory.idyll.org/blog//2015-authorship-on-software-papers.html" rel="nofollow">http://ivory.idyll.org/blog//2015-authorship-on-software-papers.html</a><br />
It sparked an interesting discussion (see the comment section).<br />
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With his bioinformatician Michael Crusoe he published a software paper in F1000 Research and included all authors which contributed to the code hosted on GitHub (even authors that only corrected typos):<br />
<a href="http://f1000research.com/articles/4-900/v1" rel="nofollow">http://f1000research.com/articles/4-900/v1</a><br />
Note, F1000 Research follows a post-publication peer review model, i.e. the paper hasn't undergone peer review yet.<br />
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In life sciences your reputation is basically build upon authorships and the position of the authorship on the paper. The authors more to the front (supposedly) contributed more significantly to the study, except for last authorship which usually is reserved for the PI (aka the person who procured the funds). Of course the impact factor of the journal is also hugely important.<br />
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This model has several pitfalls, most importantly what is a significant contribution that permits an authorship (instead of e.g. only a mention in the acknowledgements), and who is to decide this? In many labs the last author takes this role for granted and also decides on the authorship position, although even the ICMJE guidelines state this should be decided by all authors (<a href="http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html</a>). Even though the ICMJE guidelines are getting more detailed, they still leave a lot of leeway.<br />
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In my opinion, Michael and Titus are doing the right thing. However, I'm well aware this approach might be more suitable for some fields (like software engineering, big project physics) than others.<br />
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My questions now are:<br />
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1. Do you agree with the practice he followed?<br />
2. Do you work in a field where a similar approach is already implemented? Or a totally different approach is used and why?<br />
3. What are your experiences with authorships overall?<br />
4. Lastly, can a more fine-grained CRediT system (<a href="http://credit.casrai.org/proposed-taxonomy/" rel="nofollow">http://credit.casrai.org/proposed-taxonomy/</a>) or contributorship badges (<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/digital-badges-aim-to-clear-up-politics-of-authorship-1.18443" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/news/digital-badges-aim-to-clear-up-politics-of-authorship-1.18443</a>) help with some of the pitfalls of the current system?Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/807/practices-granting-authorships-deciding-authorship-improvedMon, 05 Oct 2015 13:07:33 +0000Who would like to join the admin or moderators team?https://ask-open-science.org/765/who-would-like-to-join-the-admin-or-moderators-team
I guess our first task is to help former users of the shut down SE private beta regain access to their user accounts that were imported into this site. Luckily, the PhysicsOverflow admins donated two plugins which make this easy as pie. Please contact me if you would like to join the team.Metahttps://ask-open-science.org/765/who-would-like-to-join-the-admin-or-moderators-teamFri, 04 Sep 2015 20:18:24 +0000What online resources are available for learning reproducible research methods?https://ask-open-science.org/72/resources-available-learning-reproducible-research-methods
<p>Aside from the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.coursera.org/course/repdata">Johns Hopkins Reproducible Research course</a>, what online resources are available to learn about reproducibility? Furthermore, is there any way to obtain a formal certification in reproducible research practice?</p>
<span style="color: red;"><small><br><br>This post has been migrated from the Open Science private beta at StackExchange (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/90201/open-science">A51.SE)</a></small></span>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/72/resources-available-learning-reproducible-research-methodsMon, 17 Aug 2015 20:27:15 +0000Community Promotion Adshttps://ask-open-science.org/500/community-promotion-ads
<p>Alright Open Science! Here's your chance to show off amazing community ads with graphic design skills that you can use to share with existing SE communities. Here's a related post: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://meta.openscience.stackexchange.com/questions/62/how-can-we-promote-this-site">How can we promote this site?</a></p>
<p>Here is part of the canonical spiel given on meta posts on graduated sites where we submit our ads for voting<sup>1</sup> (six upvotes and our ad is shown on the site), repurposed for a different use: </p>
<blockquote>
<h3>What are Community Promotion Ads?</h3>
<p>Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will
show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this
question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are
provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be
shown.</p>
<h3>Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?</h3>
<p>This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to
visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following
things:</p>
<ul>
<li>the site's twitter account</li>
<li>useful tools or resources for physics research</li>
<li>interesting articles or findings for the curious</li>
<li>cool events or conferences</li>
<li>anything else your community would genuinely be interested in</li>
</ul>
<p>The goal is for future visitors to find out about <em>the stuff your
community deems important</em>. This also serves as a way to promote
information and resources that are <em>relevant to your own community's
interests</em>, both for those already in the community and those yet to
join. </p>
<h3>Why do we reset the ads every year?</h3>
<p>Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other
things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads
every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served
their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This
helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject
matter of the community, but to the current status of the community.
We reset the ads once a year, every December.</p>
<p>The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an
ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very
valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good
idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the
process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale
after a year of exposure.</p>
<h3>Image requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>The image that you create must be <strong>220 x 250 pixels</strong></li>
<li>Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)</li>
<li>Must be GIF or PNG</li>
<li>No animated GIFs</li>
<li>Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>For more information, see <a rel="nofollow" href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/247037/whats-the-best-way-to-create-a-community-ad-for-a-beta-site">What&#39;s the best way to create a community ad for a beta site?</a>.</p>
<p>I invite everyone to submit ideas for our ad as answers, following the above guidelines.</p>
<p>How should I write an answer?</p>
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<p>You can add comments as well for your ad. If you post an ad on another site, make sure that you post only the ad, and put any text as a comment.</p>
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<p><sup>1 Note: The sites on which the ad is posted <em>must</em> be related to our site's topic. Seasoned Advice would not be a good choice.</sup></p>
<p><sup>Copied mostly from the related post at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://meta.opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/80/community-promotion-ads">Open Source</a>.
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<p><a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/what" rel="nofollow">DDI (Data Documentation Initiative)</a> is the standard format for documenting data in the social sciences (especially for survey and interview data). Yet, there do not seem to be a lot of tools for creating DDI XML from a dataset. Dataverse is one implementation, but it requires uploading a dataset to that site in order to access the DDI. What alternatives are available for creating DDI metadata documents from a dataset?</p>
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<p>I am planning to conduct a political science experiment (recruiting participants online to complete a short survey-based experiment). Either for this specific application or speaking in general terms, what information do I need to put into my pre-analysis plan? I've seen a wide variety of these documents online and there doesn't seem to be a set template that I can find.</p>
<span style="color: red;"><small><br><br>This post has been migrated from the Open Science private beta at StackExchange (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/90201/open-science">A51.SE)</a></small></span>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/59/should-analysis-registration-political-science-experimentSun, 16 Aug 2015 16:28:49 +0000How to get illegal substances for open science study?https://ask-open-science.org/51/how-to-get-illegal-substances-for-open-science-study
<p>Is there any possibility of performing open science study on cells by using illegal substances (such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol" rel="nofollow">THC</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin" rel="nofollow">ricin</a>)? If so, what are the requirements on applying for the permit to use it for study/testing purposes? Or what kind of entities can apply for it in either US or UK?</p>
<span style="color: red;"><small><br><br>This post has been migrated from the Open Science private beta at StackExchange (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/90201/open-science">A51.SE)</a></small></span>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/51/how-to-get-illegal-substances-for-open-science-studyTue, 11 Aug 2015 13:05:59 +0000Are there any limitations for independent open studies on live insect specimens?https://ask-open-science.org/50/there-limitations-independent-studies-live-insect-specimens
<p>Similar to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://openscience.stackexchange.com/q/168/10">animals</a>, I'd like to know if there are any limitations on performing independent open studies on insects (which could involve risk of killing them). Which insects can be used for that? Is it in any way treated as cruelty?</p>
<p>For instance, on this <a href="http://www.thewildoutside.com/index.php/2014-03-31-16-46-41/wildlife-protection-laws/947-which-species-are-protected-under-uk-law" rel="nofollow">page</a> I've found that all wild insects are protected in the UK, but I can't find it in the <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/69" rel="nofollow">Act</a> it-self. Therefore does taking insects from the public places for studies is fine?</p>
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<p>Where to get live specimens of rats/mice for open science project? Can you simply buy them in zoological shop? Or they need to be specially approved for that?</p>
<span style="color: red;"><small><br><br>This post has been migrated from the Open Science private beta at StackExchange (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/90201/open-science">A51.SE)</a></small></span>Open Sciencehttps://ask-open-science.org/49/where-get-mice-rats-live-specimens-for-open-science-projectTue, 11 Aug 2015 12:44:49 +0000What are the requirements for doing open science studies on animals?https://ask-open-science.org/48/what-are-requirements-for-doing-open-science-studies-animals
<p>What requirements are needed to perform open science studies on animals? Does it vary depending on the type of study and used species? Are there any legal aspects to be involved? Or where I can check that?</p>
<p>For instance, giving testing substance to mice or rats for some period of time and see how they behave and then publishing the detailed data publicly.</p>
<p>Do I need to apply for any permit/licence anywhere depending on the country or animal to perform that kind of open study independently (e.g. US/UK)?</p>
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<p>The Q&amp;A sites on StackExchange are a great platform for gathering knowledge about a multitude of things. </p>
<p>In my eyes, the reputation system does an excellent job when it comes to rating questions as well as answers according to usefulness and objectivity of their content. </p>
<p>Thus, the question arises, whether this framework along with the rating system could not be used beyond Q&amp;A? In fact, I have been playing with this idea for a while but to be honest, I still could not make up my mind about it:</p>
<p><strong>Could StackExchange's Q&amp;A framework be used for A&amp;R, as in <em>Article</em> and <em>Review</em>?</strong></p>
<p>When looking at the tools one has at hand for writing a Question: There is the possibility to write equations (see <a rel="nofollow" href="http://math.stackexchange.com/">mathematics</a>), images are supported, links, ... everything you need to write an entire article, and the same goes for an answer (a review in <em>A&amp;R</em>).</p>
<p>Just as a question and its answers are rated now, an article and its reviews could be rated (maybe a bad rating without leaving a comment should not be allowed in <em>A&amp;R</em>). The history function for the edits already serves as version control and would assure a complete history of an article and all of its reviews. The rating system would serve as measure for impact-factor with the additional advantage that reviewing articles could finally be rewarded. The only thing that would need some adaptation is the <code>accept answer</code> functionality, as rather than a review, the article would need to be accepted at some point.</p>
<p>In fact, some time ago I started a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/84646/science-exchange?referrer=AQhbbIkfesyio7mJWWlE0Q2">proposition about this on area51</a>, just to see what other users think about it. It seems that some really like it and others think the idea is plain stupid. As I said, I'm not really decided yet, I think such a site bears a great potential to publish, review, judge and access scientific findings openly.</p>
<p>So the question at hand really is:</p>
<p><strong>What are the arguments in favour or against using StackExchange's Q&amp;A framework as a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/84646/science-exchange?referrer=AQhbbIkfesyio7mJWWlE0Q2">ScienceExchange</a> <em>A&amp;R</em> platform to publish scientific results openly?</strong></p>
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<p>Using a link as a reference is often problematic as the link might disappear at a future time. However, the content might be of high relevance to the reader, so it might be worthwhile to add it as a reference. Do some publishers offer to host a mirror of webpages used as a reference?</p>
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<p>I've been reading <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.stackexchange.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/">The 7 Essential Meta Questions</a> and #2 is about who the site is for and what is on- or off-topic for the site. This will serve as the basis of the documentation for the site, in particular the listing of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://openscience.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">what is on topic</a> that is currently pretty sparse compared to say <a rel="nofollow" href="http://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic">StackOverflow's page</a>.</p>
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<p>Funders, publishers, institutions and others are increasingly moving towards policies that are aimed at sharing research.</p>
<p>The degree of openness &mdash; and other stipulations in those policies &mdash; vary quite considerably, so some sort of conflict between policies of a researcher's institution, funder and publisher or between those of collaborators is to be expected.</p>
<p>What examples are there where relevant policies conflict(ed) fundamentally? How have these issues been handled?</p>
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<p>It would be good if this Open Science Stack Exchange would expose its data in as openly a manner as possible.</p>
<p>There is an API that provides much of the data (e.g. on questions, users, badges) but in the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://api.stackexchange.com/docs">documentation</a>, I could not find any traffic/ view stats, nor the licensing of these site-generated data.</p>
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<p>In other words, can anybody publish an open science project, or does the author need to have some specific title or at least study the subject in order to receive some positive feedback from the community?</p>
<p>Or is it simply evaluated based on the quality of the published data and its positive feedback/output?</p>
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<p>Are there any organisations/foundations/hubs which manages/approve independent open science projects which are accepted and well recognised within mainstream scientific circles?</p>
<p>For instance, what if <a rel="nofollow" href="http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102">the published project doesn't make any sense</a> and its calling it-self the open science project?</p>
<p>In other words, what kind of organisations/community ensure quality of the published data so it's accepted as reliable 'open science' project or anybody can publish anything and call it 'open science project' (for instance publishing open data of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster">correlation of the number of pirates with global temperature</a>)?</p>
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